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...first recording of a huge, seldom heard work that dates in time to 1904 and in style to a still earlier romantic era. Ferruccio Busoni was a pianist in the tradition of Liszt. He was a teacher who boasted disciples rather than pupils (among them, Kurt Weill) and he was also a composer of grandiose notions and mixed talents, which are illuminated by English Pianist John Ogdon and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in this 70-minute work The introductory movement seems to be all stately facade, but once inside the musical structure, the listener has a merry whirl, particularly...
Vocal Fantasy. After taping songs by the Beatles, Purcell, Falla and Weill for Dutch television in Amsterdam, Cathy Berberian made a pilgrimage to London to meet McCartney, who told her he was beginning to dig her kind of songs, too. "I used to think that anyone who was doing anything weird was weird," he explained. "I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all, and it was the people that were saying they were weird that were weird." Berberian apparently had no difficulty in understanding completely. "Whether serious or pop," she said, "all music...
...Weill's Suite from the Three Penny Opera was also played with the Band's characteristic energy. Here the group pared itself down even further, metamorphosing into a chamber wind ensemble. Unlike some other musical organizations, the Band can afford to do this, blessed as it is with a plethora of excellent soloists. In their hands the suite was a seductive brew of biting sarcasm and nostalgia - echt...
Conductor James Walker assembled a concert program that was sophisticated by anyone's standards. Except for the Sousa-like Emblem of Unity at the beginning, the pieces performed were thoroughly twentieth-century, ranging in date from Kurt Weill's Kleine Dreigroschen-musik (1929) to Dello Joio's Variations on a Medieval Tune...
...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). Lotte Lenya sings the compositions of her late husband in "The World of Kurt Weill," while telling the life story of the composer whose music is equally at home on the opera stage and in the lowliest dive...